OpenOffice VS StarOffice VS MSOffice

[Kevin Brown]

How do these compare to Koffice?

OpenOffice is just StarOffice without the non-GPL'd code that Sun incorporated
for document filters and such.

> > StarOffice 6 is fantastic. Rock solid and extremely
> > fast. About a 10-fold improvement over StarOffice 5.2.
> > 100% compatible with every MS file I've tried,
> > including some extremely complex spreadsheets.
> > Outlining is handled very differently than MS Word,
> > but once you get it, it's better.
> >
> > Haven't tried OpenOffice 1.0 yet.
> 
> Just installed OO 1.0 - the binaries are
> identical to SO 6.0. In fact, the are
> even named the same; EG: soffice, scalc.